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  2. Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run - Wikipedia

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    Bill Mazeroski 's 1960 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series on October 13, 1960, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Leading off the bottom of ninth, in a 9–9 tie and with the count one ball, zero strikes, Mazeroski hit a line drive toward deep left field that cleared the wall for ...

  3. William Thompson Lusk - Wikipedia

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    William Thompson Lusk (May 23, 1838 – June 12, 1897) [1] was an American obstetrician and a soldier who rose to the rank of Assistant Adjutant-General in the United States Volunteers during the first three years of the American Civil War. After he retired from the Union Army, he finished his medical education and became a professor as well as ...

  4. Treasure of Lima - Wikipedia

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    Thompson headed for Cocos Island, off the coast of present-day Costa Rica, where he and his men allegedly buried the treasure. They then decided to split up and lie low until the situation had calmed down, at which time they would reconvene to divvy up the spoils. However, the Mary Dear was captured, and the crew went on trial for piracy. All ...

  5. Bill Thompson (New York politician) - Wikipedia

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    2. Education. Tufts University ( BA) William Colridge Thompson Jr. (born July 10, 1953) [1] [2] [3] is an American politician who served as the 42nd Comptroller of New York City; sworn into office on January 1, 2002, he was reelected to serve a second term that began on January 1, 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2009.

  6. Hans Conried - Wikipedia

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    Hans Georg Conried Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982) was an American actor and comedian. He was known for providing the voices of George Darling and Captain Hook in Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953), Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Waldo P. Wigglesworth in Ward's Hoppity Hooper cartoons, was host of Ward's live-action "Fractured Flickers" show and ...

  7. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) - Wikipedia

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    William Henry Thompson (August 16, 1927 – August 6, 1950) was a United States Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War . Born to a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in New York City, Thompson entered the Army in 1945 and served ...

  8. Bennie Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Bennie Thompson. Bennie Gordon Thompson (born January 28, 1948) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson served as the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security from 2019 to 2023 and from 2007 to 2011. [1]

  9. Richard Jenrette - Wikipedia

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    United States. Alma mater. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Harvard Business School. Occupation (s) Banker, Founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Partner. William L. Thompson. Richard Hampton Jenrette (April 5, 1929 – April 22, 2018) was an American businessman who co-founded the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ).